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Brandon Williams updated CASSANDRA-1777:
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    Attachment: 1777.txt

This is actually simple enough to apply to 0.7 if we leave out the rpc port 
(since that would require a thrift api change.)  describe_splits doesn't appear 
to be affected, just describe_ring.

> The describe_host API method is misleading in that it returns the interface 
> associated with gossip traffic
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-1777
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1777
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Nate McCall
>            Assignee: Brandon Williams
>             Fix For: 0.8
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>         Attachments: 1777.txt
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>   Original Estimate: 16h
>  Remaining Estimate: 16h
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> If the hardware is configured to use separate interfaces for thrift and 
> gossip, the gossip interface will be returned, given the results come out of 
> the ReplicationStrategy eventually.
> I understand the approach, but given this is on the API, it effective 
> worthless in situations of host auto discovery via describe_ring from a 
> client. I actually see this as the primary use case of this method - why else 
> would I care about the gossip iface from the client perspective? It's current 
> form should be relegated to JMX only. 
> At the same time, we should add port information as well. 
> describe_splits probably has similar issues.
> I see the potential cart-before-horse issues here and that this will probably 
> be non-trivial to fix, but I think "give me a set of all the hosts to which I 
> can talk" is pretty important from a client perspective.

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